Upbringing famous quotes

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
-- Anselm Kiefer

#Thinking #Purpose #Upbringing

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Father #Conservative #Upbringing

I had a very modest upbringing.
-- Balthazar Getty

#Modest #Upbringing

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.
-- Brian Molko

#Religious #Christ #Upbringing

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.
-- Danny Dyer

#My Family #Upbringing

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
-- Graham Swift

#Opposites #Upbringing

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
-- Idris Elba

#Important #Stories #Upbringing

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.
-- James MacArthur

#Mother #Normal #Upbringing

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,
-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Upbringing

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Imperfect #Rich #Upbringing

I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.
-- Joaquin Phoenix

#Unconventional #Upbringing

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.
-- John McGahern

#Gratitude #Church #Upbringing

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.
-- Julian Casablancas

#Thinking #People #Upbringing

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Appreciate #Done #Upbringing

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.
-- Mary-Kate Olsen

#Wish #World #Upbringing

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.
-- Peter Jackson

#Mean #Upbringing

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.
-- Sharon Horgan

#Rebel #Upbringing

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical
-- Tom Selleck

#Strong #Upbringing

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.
-- Roselyn Sanchez

#Normal #Puerto Rico #Upbringing

All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles.
-- Joan Wallach Scott

#Political #Speak #Upbringing

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
-- Luke Ford

#Sin #Upbringing